New: LIVE ONLINE COURSE

Online 6 or 8 week
courses

In-person 8 week course in
Nottingham, UK

With Nottingham-based teachers Bea Carrington (BSc, MSc) and Stephania Wieland (BSc, MSc).

Based on the scientifically grounded work of Susan Bögels founder of the Mindful Parenting Method. Research shows that mindfulness can be helpful for both parent and child.

Learn To:

  • Create space to compassionately connect with yourself and your child as a busy parent
  • Positively transform your parenting experience
  • Develop a stronger bond with your child
  • Take better care of yourself
  • Respond less reactively and more flexibly to parenting stress

Our courses include a mix of teaching, informal everyday mindfulness, formal practice, and weekly assignments. A comprehensive pack of resources is included in the price

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Do you find it challenging to consistently:

  • Manage strong emotions triggered by your child
  • ‘Fix’ your child’s distress
  • Set effective limits with your child
  • Reconnect with your child after a rupture/ argument
  • Manage expectations about your child
  • Be present with your child when you have a busy life
  • Find time to reconnect with your ‘Self’ as a parent

You are not alone with these challenges

feel held back by?

  • Lack of time, juggling too many commitments
  • Lack of support
  • Confusion over all the parenting ‘advice’ out there
  • Falling into a guilt, shame and self-criticism cycle
  • Comparing yourself negatively with others

Join our course to learn:

Mindful parenting practices to help you:

  • Become more aware of your emotions and better control your reactions
  • Resolve conflicts better with your child
  • Develop trust as the cornerstone of your relationship with your child
  • Recognise & change patterns from your own upbringing
  • Bring more kindness and compassion to moments with your child

Join us to connect with other parents in the same boat.

“You can’t stop the waves from coming but you can learn how to surf”

Jon Kabat Zinn

“I don’t have time to do mindfulness – I’ve got kids!”

Let us show you how making time for mindful connection with your child is possible in small chunks, integrated into your busy day.
By taking care of ourselves we are taking care of others.

Transform Your Parenting Experience

Here’s An Overview of Everything You Get in our Mindful Parenting Course

Module 1:

Bringing Awareness to your Parenting

Shifting from autopilot to conscious Attention.

You will learn:

  • How to step out of ‘doing mode’ into ‘being mode’
  • How to approach your child with a ‘beginner’s mind’
Module 2:

‘Beginner’s Mind’ Parenting

Looking at your child in a new way

You will learn:

  • To connect with the true nature of your child
  • How to approach your own parenting with kindness
Module 3:

Reconnecting with your body as a parent

Putting on your own oxygen mask first!

You will learn:

  • How to recognise early stress signals
  • Short and powerful self-compassion practices
Module 4:

Responding rather than reacting to parenting stress

Mindfulness offers an alternative way to be with stress

You will learn:

  • About the natural biological reaction that shoots us into ‘survival mode’
  • How to respond wisely when triggered
Module 5:

Break unhealthy generational parenting patterns

Understanding parenting as a unique emotional trigger

You will learn:

  • How we re-experience our own childhood when we become parents.
  • How to break negative internalised child and parent ‘modes’
  • How to benefit from our ‘healthy adult’ mode when parenting
Module 6:

Rupture and repair: Deepening the bond

Create distance & space to resolve conflict

You will learn:

  • That ruptures are unavoidable and needed
  • How to repair ruptures with courage and deepen connection
  • About the role of fight/ flight/ freeze and ego
Module 7:

Boundary setting

Combining space for creativity with clear values and boundaries

You will learn:

  • Awareness of where your limits are and when you need to recharge.
  • How to bring kindness to your own experience
Module 8:

Lifelong parenting

Consolidating skills for life

You will learn:

  • Everyday guidance for mindful parenting
  • How to realistically build mindfulness and mindful parenting into your life

“Every one of us already has the seed of mindfulness. The practice is to cultivate it”

Thich Nhat Hanh

This Is For You If:

  • You want evidence-based practices you can build into your busy life
  • Want to manage parenting stress, resolve conflicts, and understand your upbringing’s impact more effectively.
  • Want to connect with other parents in the same boat
  • You are ready to get stuck in and commit to regular practice
  • You want to interrupt intergenerational patterns of parenting

This Might Not Be For You If:

  • You are seeking more in-depth therapeutic input on a 1:1 basis.
  • You have recently experienced trauma/loss and not had the opportunity to receive therapy/process this.
  • You find group work very challenging.
  • If you are currently experiencing a lot of instability and stress.
Our Experts

Meet Your Teachers

Meet Bea and Stephania, your mindful parenting guides.

Bea Carrington

Bea runs Creating Space Therapies, a busy private therapy practice seeing clients at her office locally in Nottingham and online worldwide. With over 15 years working in the field of mental health, Bea is a Registered Mental Health Nurse, Accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, EMDR Europe Accredited EMDR Practitioner and certified mindfulness teacher. She holds a master’s degree in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy from the University of Nottingham and has completed advanced training in mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) with the Nottingham Centre for Mindfulness. She is also guardian to and regularly cares for a wonderful, curious three-year-old!
Bea has advanced, specialist training in Mindful Parenting from World Expert, Professor Susan Bögels, whose mindfulness programme for children with ADHD and their parents featured on BBC1’s The Doctor Who Gave up Drugs programme. Bea has experience of teaching mindfulness courses to busy professionals working for local healthcare trusts. Bea has extensive experience working in an attachment-focused way and teaches how we can take care of our own inner child.

She describes her therapeutic style as warm, personable, creative, grounded, and collaborative.

Stephania Wieland

Steph is a certified and BAMBA (British Association for Mindfulness Based Approaches) accredited mindfulness therapist and a BABCP (British association of behavioural and cognitive psychotherapy) accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (CBT). Steph has over 14 years of experience in delivering therapy in the NHS and runs an established private practice (Wildflower Psychotherapy) in the Nottingham area. She regularly runs mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) groups within her NHS role and recognizes that mindfulness strongly influences her clinical practice. She holds a master’s degree in Cognitive Behavioural therapy from the University of Nottingham and has completed advanced training in mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) with the Nottingham Centre for Mindfulness and trauma informed mindfulness with the Sussex Mindfulness Centre.

Steph believes that mindfulness can transform parenting by cultivating deeper connections, fostering emotional resilience and enhancing communications within the family.

Being a mother of two young children she understands the challenges and demands of parenthood, especially the pressures of the busy life of a working parent. Mindfulness helps Steph to improve her own and her children’s emotional regulations, enhances communication, increases joyful moments and creates stronger relationships.

Testimonials

“Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to come and learn and experience mindfulness, the journey I have been on in the last 8 weeks has transformed my mind. Thank you so much for helping me along my journey. The way you explained your experiences and the teachings has really resonated with me and I will carry these with me in my daily practice and my life. I have really looked forward to coming each week and learning more”.
Group Participant
A father warmly embraces his young son on a sofa, capturing a moment of affection and togetherness.

“We repeat what we don’t repair”

Christine Langley-Obaugh

Frequently Asked Questions

Classes are run on a regular basis, online and in person in Nottingham, UK at various locations. Click here for current course details.

Each week of the course builds on the previous one and we strongly recommend you attend all 8 sessions. We have found that participants who are able to commit to this schedule experience the most positive effects and are most satisfied with the course. If you are unable to attend a class, please let us know. You will still receive the handouts from the class you missed. Also see our Cancellation Policy.

Our courses provide a variety of mindfulness practices, short, long, and what’s called ‘informal’ mindfulness integrated into your day. Practicing mindfulness may initially cause some internal struggles whilst you build up your ‘mindfulness muscle’; you may think you don’t have time for it, feel too tired, find it boring, think it won’t help, or feel guilty about sitting ‘doing nothing’. However, to enjoy the benefits of meditation it’s important just to do it. So, just as we always brush our teeth without questioning whether we feel like it or whether we have time, so meditation too can be planned for a set time and become part of our everyday self-care routine.

The general advice is for children not to be present, however in exceptional circumstances, please contact the team prior to the class for advice.
We are unable to provide creche or childcare facilities at in-person classes.

Previous mindfulness/ meditation is not required to benefit from the course. We often find people attend our courses with little to no mindfulness or meditation experience and benefit greatly from the learnings. Equally, if you have a well-established mindfulness practice of your own, you can benefit from the learning to apply the skills of mindfulness to your experience of parenting.

“Every one of us already has the seed of mindfulness. The practice is to cultivate it” – Thich Nhat Hanh

No. The course is suitable for anyone, regardless of gender, role, caregiver, or guardian of a child, not necessarily ‘parent’.

What’s our message to fathers?

You can make a big difference to your children. A question that can be explored on the course is “What would you have wanted or needed from your dad?”, or “What did your dad give you that was important?” and, most importantly, “What do you want to give to your own children?”.

The course is less suitable for parents with babies in the first 6 months of life but otherwise it is suitable for caregivers/ parents with any age of child or teen.

Absolutely. In fact, the participants in the early research groups were parents of children with a diagnosed condition such as ADHD or autism. The studies found that Mindful Parenting has significant and substantial benefits on parenting, mindfulness and child and parental stress.

For some, focusing on the breath can be triggering or distressing, particularly for those with trauma or specific anxiety-related experiences. Offering alternative anchors for mindfulness practice, such as focusing on physical sensations, sounds, or visual cues, can provide a more accessible path to present-moment awareness.

Both course leads have additional qualifications in trauma-informed mindfulness and will be able to support participants who might experience distress and can adjust the practices to accommodate individual needs.